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On September 20, 1986, the U.S. Senate confirmed William Rehnquist as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by a vote...

On September 19, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, British forces under General John Burgoyne launched a three-pronged attack against...

A British Columbia school district barred mother Bryony Dixon from school property after she publicly criticized one of her son’s...

In Sudan, the civil war between rival generals Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has produced a harrowing persecution...

On September 18, 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court. Bork, a prominent conservative...

Texas A&M University has fired a professor and removed key administrators—namely the dean and department head—after backlash over a class...

On September 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, establishing the...

In a bizarre case out of County Tyrone, Ireland, a man stunned police officers by insisting he “identified as a...

On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, England, with 102 passengers and crew aboard, embarking on a...

On September 15, 1857, President and Chief Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft was born. Taft, a Republican who served...